TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klaus L. Berghahn
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 0899-9899
SN  - 9781453910047
TI  - The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered
T2  - A Symposium in Honor of George L. Mosse
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1004-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054383
N2  - Was there a German-Jewish dialogue? This seemingly innocent question was silenced by the Holocaust. Since then, it is out of the question to take comfortable refuge to a distant past when Mendelssohn and Lessing started this dialogue. Adorno/Horkheimer, Arendt, and above all Scholem have repeatedly pointed out, how the noble promises of the Enlightenment were perverted, which led to a complete failure of Jewish emancipation in Germany. It is against this backdrop of warning posts that we dare to return to an important chapter of Jewish culture in Germany. This project should not be seen, however, as an attempt to idealize the past or to harmonize the present, but as a plea for a new dialogue between Germans and Jews about their common past.
KW  - Enlightenment, emancipation, Holocaust
LA  - English
ER  -